Leadership and Management Development: Closing the Skills Gap

You are to actively assess your present leadership and management skills and then actively engage in the development, planning, participation and execution of leadership activities that will enhance and close the skills gap in your leadership capabilities.

Develop and demonstrate effective leadership skills

You are to critically assess your existing leadership and management capabilities using a range of academic and theoretical models in order to identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses.

You are to then develop and plan a range of leadership and management development activities to address any specific weaknesses and extend and enhance any existing strengths. You will build a supporting e-portfolio of evidence outlining activities and events that your led or participated in that will inform and support your 1,000-word self-reflection report.

Assess your existing leadership and management capabilities using a range of academic and theoretical models.

Develop and plan a range of leadership and management developmental activities individually and as a member of a team.

Construct an e-portfolio of personal development activities, evidence and self-reflection.

• This assessment takes the format of a 1,000-word, self-reflection report. You are to complete the task set. The report must apply models and theoretical concepts and be supported by evidence, with references, from reputable sources throughout and with clear links to your e-portfolio.
• You should also refer to contemporary data sources as well as market data insight from sources such as CIPD, ILM, McKinsey, Harvard Business Review and other such reputable sources including content drawn from the core texts and lecture series.
• Front cover, executive summary, contents page, reference pages and appendices are NOT included in either the page count or the word count that have been allocated. Words used in tables, charts, diagrams are also NOT included in the word count. Note we do not expect to see any Wikipedia, Investopedia, Business Balls, Slide Share, and Essays4U, Term Papers or other spurious non-academic non-reputable sources within your work or in the reference list. Font size should be 11 with single line spacing. Reference list should be presented in the Harvard format  along with in text referencing and there is a maximum of 4 pages allocated to appendices should you need them.

Have you read and understood the assessment criteria?

Have you met the learning outcomes? You will lose marks and your work may even be failed if you have not.

Have you demonstrated you can think and write critically in the completed work?

Have you maintained an academic tone throughout your work? Is your work formal, focused, developed and clear?

Have you checked that the referencing in your assignment is in line with your programme requirements?

Have you proof-read your work and used spellcheck software to check your spelling and grammar?

Have you checked the presentation of your work is as specified by your tutor, for example, are font size, colour,style, line spacing and margins as the tutor specified?

Have you kept to the word count (or equivalent)? If you are not sure, check with your tutor.

Can you confirm that the work submitted is your own and not plagiarised?